Teaching grammar in French as a foreign language-classes in macedonian schools
Journal
International Journal of Education - TEACHER, 10 (19)
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Kasaposka-Chadlovska, Milena
Abstract
In our many years of experience teaching the French language, we have had more cases of
students with low grammatical knowledge of the language as opposed to those with solid
grammatical basis, although most frequently, both of those groups of students have already
been learning the language in the primary and secondary school. This reality inspired us to set
a goal to use this research to investigate whether this “problem” could possibly be a result of
the methodology used to teach the grammar in the lower education levels. Namely, our
intention was to gain insight in the way the grammar is taught in a part of the Macedonian
primary and secondary schools. For that purpose, we prepared a questionnaire through the
answers of which we gained knowledge about several aspects of teaching grammar. In
general, the research has shown that explicit grammar is used, in principle, but that it is not
taught in a completely traditional way, but through a deductive approach. In doing so, the
teachers rarely use a specialized pedagogical grammar for French as a foreign language,
mostly relying on the grammar offered in the schoolbook. We have also reached a conclusion
that there is big room for specialized training of a large part of the teachers, on the topic of
grammar methodology of teaching in French as a foreign language. Apart from this, the
research also points at some other defects which need to be resolved in the future if we want
to achieve better quality of the classes and more success among the students who are taught
the French grammar.
students with low grammatical knowledge of the language as opposed to those with solid
grammatical basis, although most frequently, both of those groups of students have already
been learning the language in the primary and secondary school. This reality inspired us to set
a goal to use this research to investigate whether this “problem” could possibly be a result of
the methodology used to teach the grammar in the lower education levels. Namely, our
intention was to gain insight in the way the grammar is taught in a part of the Macedonian
primary and secondary schools. For that purpose, we prepared a questionnaire through the
answers of which we gained knowledge about several aspects of teaching grammar. In
general, the research has shown that explicit grammar is used, in principle, but that it is not
taught in a completely traditional way, but through a deductive approach. In doing so, the
teachers rarely use a specialized pedagogical grammar for French as a foreign language,
mostly relying on the grammar offered in the schoolbook. We have also reached a conclusion
that there is big room for specialized training of a large part of the teachers, on the topic of
grammar methodology of teaching in French as a foreign language. Apart from this, the
research also points at some other defects which need to be resolved in the future if we want
to achieve better quality of the classes and more success among the students who are taught
the French grammar.
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